FEAST OF ALL SAINTS - CHRISTMAS ALE STYLE: 11.01.08Celebrate the early release of Christmas Ale six packs from 12:01 AM - 1:00 AM on Saturday, November 1, 2008 in the Great Lakes Brewing Company Gift Shop ($10.99/six pack)! Limited supplies available; certain restrictions may apply. Christmas Ale will officially be on tap at 11:30 AM on Saturday, November 1, 2008. Remember, 12:01 AM on November 1st is late Friday night going into Saturday morning...!

"At least the Scots didn't have to tune in with the rest of the country and watch their women get plowed by Longshanks and his men."~Commodore Perry on the difference between baseball's flawed economics : Indians :: prima nocta : Scots

Bell's Oberon is great beer - should be able to get it in the Midwest, it's brewed in Michigan. Great summer beer.Sam Adams Summer AleShiner BockAlaskan Amber Red HookFat TireMighty Arrow Pale Ale (another New Belgium product)Pyramid Hefeweizen

When I wasn't being a beer snob, my absolute favorite was a little hole in the wall in Seattle that had $4 pitchers of Pabst Blue Ribbon and free pool on Sunday nights. Nothing like starting your week off in grad school with a PBR hangover

Saw the "Shiner Family Reunion" six and twelve packs at the grocery store last night, I'll probably pick some up this weekend. 6 different beers: Shiner Bock, Light, Hefeweizen, Blonde, Black Lager and Kosmos.

I was in San Antonio at the Grand Hyatt on the Riverwalk last week for a software user conference. I can't count how many Shiner Bock's I must have thrown down. Great stuff, and all free. Incidentally the morning that the Mavs ousted the Spurs Mark Cuban came walking off the elevator as I was walking on around the lunch hour. Totally took me by surprise as I wasn't paying attention to the Spurs/Mavs series and forgot they were even in town. Still the free Shiner made that trip worth it and I won't miss one of those events again. (though I did take on some free margarita's also).

I have no beer I have consistently drinking, although alot of places I have dined at recently have had Great Divide Titan IPA, its pretty damn good, but that isnt why I am posting.

So this beer store near me has a cooler full of singles, always a new rotation, it is only $7.99 a 6 pack for the biggest random selection of brews. I love it. I have gotten it 3 times and never the same beer twice. Its a great way to sample alot of beers with out having to plop down for a 6 pack when you dont know if you'll like it. Wish more stores did that.

My buddy went to the Kenny Chesney concert in PA and I had him pick me up a case. Dumbass got me cans though... Still good but not the same as an ice cold Yuengling in a bottle.

Down in Nashville one bar had them for $2 for a 16oz draft and at LP Field they were $9 for a 24oz bottle. Which is $4.50 a beer and that ain't ridiculous at a stadium venue.

Another thing I liked about the CMA Fest and Nashville: they gouged you nowhere. $4 to park all day in a downtown, covered garage next to the venues, food was reasonable if not cheap, beer joints were competing for crowds. Good time.

And Nashville is bigger, newer, nicer and cleaner than Cleveland while still preserving the older architecture and bars that pre-dated actual commerce.

There are two things I miss about living in Philadelphia:1) The weather: You get all four seasons, but the winter's are pretty tame except for the one NorEaster that usually comes through per winter.2) Yuengling

That's it. Other than that, the city sucks.

"And three of the better guys in franchise history, Daugherty, Z and now Kyrie could get hurt in a rubber room full of cotton balls." - Leadpipe

I've heard good things about Bell's Oberon, a wheat ale, perfect for summer. It even comes in a handy dandy little keg for about $20. Anyone try this yet? (Forget for a moment that it's brewed in that state up north).

Huge0126 wrote:I've heard good things about Bell's Oberon, a wheat ale, perfect for summer. It even comes in a handy dandy little keg for about $20. Anyone try this yet? (Forget for a moment that it's brewed in that state up north).

Oberon is one of my all-time favorites. We used to stock up before summer was over. Can't get it here in Texas, but a friend is coming to visit soon and I've already requested transport of several cases.

Huge0126 wrote:I've heard good things about Bell's Oberon, a wheat ale, perfect for summer. It even comes in a handy dandy little keg for about $20. Anyone try this yet? (Forget for a moment that it's brewed in that state up north).

Oberon is one of my all-time favorites. We used to stock up before summer was over. Can't get it here in Texas, but a friend is coming to visit soon and I've already requested transport of several cases.

Paulie C turned me on to the Bells Oberon a couple months back when we met at the Melt for a couple cold ones after work. Their IPA (name eluding me) is bad to the bone as well.

Quickly become one of my favorite beers. Great summer patio beer. 6.0% too. Very smooth, great taste. Really, really good.

"It's like dating a woman who hates you so much she will never break up with you, even if you burn down the house every single autumn." ~ Chuck Klosterman on Browns fans relationship with the Browns

New Belgium Brews for me....Fat Tire, Skinny Dip and Sunshine Wheat. Tried their Mighty Arrow, Sorry to say I couldn't stand the taste, first time I tossed some beers out! Sante Fe Brewery has some fine beers if anyone manages to head out west give them a try. When I'm in Ohio in July I will definitely get some Dortmunder.

Just got some of this early tonight. My first foray into Czech beer. Gotta say it's pretty damn good. I only bought a 24 pack, i'll be ordering more for sure. Going to explore the Czech beers more indepth this summer.

the other day one of my friends who goes to school in Penn. got me a 6 pack of Magic Hat not quite pale ale. and i must say it was not too shabby

"i've been gettin G-ed up since i came out the hospital as a baby. i didn't wear pampers, i wore some slacks and some gators on the way home.""in order for us to grow u gotta know, in order to love the brotherman, u gotta know the otherman. because one fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish. knick knack paddy wack, give the dog a bone." - Delonte West

mattvan1 wrote:A kick ass Belgian style bottle fermented ale. 9% ABV, so be at home with seatbelt fastened. Rumored to be Lebron's favorite.

so i guess he is going to the Nets after next year

"i've been gettin G-ed up since i came out the hospital as a baby. i didn't wear pampers, i wore some slacks and some gators on the way home.""in order for us to grow u gotta know, in order to love the brotherman, u gotta know the otherman. because one fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish. knick knack paddy wack, give the dog a bone." - Delonte West

My friend got me hooked on Railbender from the Eerie Brewing Co. Not bad at all, it's a dark lager with a great aftertaste.

Otherwise, my fridge is evenly split between Burning River and Yuengling Black&Tan.

Still have a few Sam Adams White Ales left, but those'll be gone soon. Too bad that's only a seasonal. Not that there's anything wrong with Blue Moon or Leine's Sunset Wheat, but I just prefer White Ale over the other two.

lol. "High Brow". I loves the good stuff, Budweiser is ok, but I prefer the real flavor. My friend owns a specialty liquor store, so he orders me the good stuff at no extra charge. The wait sucks, sometimes 2 weeks, sometimes a month.

BTW. Peek, are you saving the Milwaukee's Beast and Pabst pics? Hamms is pretty bad, those are worse. Oh and don't forget Natural Light/Ice.

Cerebral_DownTime wrote:lol. "High Brow". I loves the good stuff, Budweiser is ok, but I prefer the real flavor. My friend owns a specialty liquor store, so he orders me the good stuff at no extra charge. The wait sucks, sometimes 2 weeks, sometimes a month.

BTW. Peek, are you saving the Milwaukee's Beast and Pabst pics? Hamms is pretty bad, those are worse. Oh and don't forget Natural Light/Ice.

I'm holding those back and then some. You could see POC, Schmidts, Mickey's, Red, White & Blue. All the oldies and goodies.

Cerebral_DownTime wrote:lol. "High Brow". I loves the good stuff, Budweiser is ok, but I prefer the real flavor. My friend owns a specialty liquor store, so he orders me the good stuff at no extra charge. The wait sucks, sometimes 2 weeks, sometimes a month.

BTW. Peek, are you saving the Milwaukee's Beast and Pabst pics? Hamms is pretty bad, those are worse. Oh and don't forget Natural Light/Ice.

I'm holding those back and then some. You could see POC, Schmidts, Mickey's, Red, White & Blue. All the oldies and goodies.

Ahh good 'ol Mickeys. That, King Cobra (Along with Old E,the worst alcoholic liquids ever made), and Black Velvet Whiskey was a fun part of my latter teen years. That was when flavor meant nothing, it was about getting so hammered you passed out in the grass. It was about bong hits and nasty beer.

I'll bring a few different types of the imports I dig to the OSU/Toledo game see what you guys think.

Cerebral_DownTime wrote:lol. "High Brow". I loves the good stuff, Budweiser is ok, but I prefer the real flavor. My friend owns a specialty liquor store, so he orders me the good stuff at no extra charge. The wait sucks, sometimes 2 weeks, sometimes a month.

BTW. Peek, are you saving the Milwaukee's Beast and Pabst pics? Hamms is pretty bad, those are worse. Oh and don't forget Natural Light/Ice.

I'm holding those back and then some. You could see POC, Schmidts, Mickey's, Red, White & Blue. All the oldies and goodies.

Ahh good 'ol Mickeys. That, King Cobra (Along with Old E,the worst alcoholic liquids ever made), and Black Velvet Whiskey was a fun part of my latter teen years. That was when flavor meant nothing, it was about getting so hammered you passed out in the grass. It was about bong hits and nasty beer.

I'll bring a few different types of the imports I dig to the OSU/Toledo game see what you guys think.

Let's start at the very bottom (at least as far as embarrassment is concerned when you showed up with this):

This beer I had in Germany during Oktoberfest, it's from Sweden, it ramges in alcohol from 5%-7+%. I can't find a picture of the can, but the one I bought was the size of 2 Fosters cans stacked on top of each other. It cost 1 Euro, it wasn't awful, not great but, it could've been much worse.